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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 09:08
The eye-catching online shopping carnival in Taobao Mall on Singles Day (November 11,2011) ended at the midnight of the day. According to the official announcement released by Taobao Mall on November 13, the online shopping carnival secured orders worth CNY 3.36 billion during a single day of Nov. 11. Of all provinces, Zhejiang Province got the first place with 415 million CNY in sales revenue, and Jiangsu and Guangdong followed in second and third places respectively. Of all cities, Shanghai took the first place with 206 million CNY in sales revenue, and Beijing, Hangzhou and Chengdu followed in second, third and fourth places respectively. Ningbo took the fifth place with 73.06 million CNY.
Besides people’s huge purchasing power, Ningbo merchants also made big sales by means of online shopping and took the first and third places in sales revenue made during a single day. It is learned that on the “Singles Day”, three brand shops made the biggest sales, topping 40 million CNY, two of which were GXG and Beyond Textile of Ningbo.
The success of online shopping carnival showed that online shopping is becoming a new engineer to stimulate the domestic demand. On Singles Day, the sales revenue generated by Taobao Mall on Nov 11 was 936 million CNY, this recorded sales was nearly four times of that in 2010. Though Ningbo took the fifth place in all cities, it was the only non-capital city. The president of Taobao Mall Zhang Yong analyzed that a series of figures showed that the domestic demand had a rising momentum and again showed that e-business had become new powerhouse in boosting domestic demand and the consumption economy. It is learned that the sales revenue in 2010 reached 513.1 billion CNY, with an increase of 97.3% year-on-year and accounting for 3% of the total volume of retail sales.
At the same time, network marketing is also becoming a new transformational channel of the small-, medium- and micro-sized enterprises. According to the Opinions on E-business Development issued by the Ministry of Commerce several days ago, by 2015, the proportion of enterprises above designated size using e-business will reach over 80%, and the proportion of online retail sales will reach over 9% of the social retail sales. So the potential incremental market will be favored by the traditional enterprises. Many enterprises have transformed into selling goods in both real and online stores. Some enterprises, whether authorized as flag shops or franchised stores, have joined in Taobao Mall or other online retail platforms. For example, in this Taobao Mall online shopping carnival most of 2000 enterprises are small-, medium- and micro-sized enterprises. Two of the three brand shops with 40 million CNY in retail sales are “Amphibious Stars” who have both real and online stores
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 09:07
The signing ceremony for projects to be settled in newly established Ningbo Bamboo Industrial Park and Binhai New Town was held in Fenghua on November 11. 43 projects were signed, involving mechanism manufacture, clothing, bamboo industry, emerging industries and cultural industries, with the total investment of 7.5 billion CNY. This indicated the opening of the industrial parks.
To solve the constitutive contradictions and low profit level of the industry, this year Fenghua has injected large input for construction of industrial platforms cluster this year. It aims to forge high-level platforms that match emerging industries while doing a good job in traditional industries like clothing.
A number of industrial platforms with high starting points, advanced planning and high quality are under construction, including Binhai New Town, Ningbo Bamboo Industrial Park, Marine Equipment Industrial Zone and Recycling Economic Zone, etc. In Binhai New Town, an area of 4000 mu has been exploited, accounting for a quarter of the total planning area. The Ningbo Bamboo Industrial Park, with a total investment of 2.5 billion CNY, was planned to be built as one of the first-rate bamboo industrial parks in China.
According to statistics, over 50 projects each with registered capital of over 10 million CNY were introduced in Fenghua from January to September, up 42.8% over the same period last year, among which emerging industries accounted for over 60%. The planning area of the economic development zone has been expanded from 7.7 km2 to 41.4 km2.
The emerging industries of high-level service, manufacturing industries and precision farming, as well as new energy, new equipment and new material industries are rising greatly. From January to September, the output value of over 40 emerging industrial companies (each generating with over 5 million CNY) made up 25% of the total. The deepsea equipment industry has begun its taking-off. When the 3rd phase of the the deep-sea equipment project is put into operation, the annual output value is expected to surpass 10 billion CNY in five years
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 09:06
China Import and Export Bank (EIBC) held a meeting on granting credit to small and micro businesses at the Howard Johnson Hotel of Ningbo on Nov. 14. The EIBC Ningbo Branch introduced their practices in bank-bank cooperation in serving small and micro businesses. Vice Mayor Su Limian attended the meeting and met Li Ruogu, president of the Bank.
The EIBC Ningbo Branch was launched on Nov. 28 last year. It has been increasing efforts in granting funds to small and micro businesses. By the end of last month, it had granted loans of CNY 171 million to a dozen companies.